Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: make bitfield annotations be valid C

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Jun 07 2009 - 09:02:45 EST


On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:20:54AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > According to Al Viro, the syntax we were using (putting #ifdef inside
> > > > macro arguments) was not valid C. He also suggested using begin/end
> > > > markers instead, which is what we do now.
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Al, are you okay with this?
> >
> > Looks sane
>
> Thanks.
>
> This removes the blocker bug from kmemcheck and we can try to push
> it in the .31 merge window. Does the level and amount of bit-field
> annotations look unduly troublesome to you? If we merge kmemcheck
> then we'll have these type annotations forever.

What had been posted in this thread didn't look over the top for me, but
it's really a question for maintainers of the affected code...
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